Word Formation Star

* Yabba dabba doo
Exam practice: Use of English, Part 4

2 For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Someof the lines are
correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (./).
If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word.
Duck Tales: The Movie

the 0 Viewers who enjoy the Disney's famous cartoon
__ ./_ 00 characters will enjoy Duck Tales: The Movie. This new
Disney production is a great movie for to take the kids to
2 during all the holidays. In spite of a few hostile reviews,
3 audiences up and down the country have been queuing
4 up to see it. In it stars some of Disney's most popular
5 creations: Uncle Scrooge and his crazy nephews Huey,
6 Dewey and Louie. After years of searching, stingy Uncle
7 Scrooge has at last discovers the fabulous lost treasure
8 of the legendary thief, Collie Baba. But when the treasure
9 slips through his fingers and Scrooge comes back home
____ 10 empty-handed, except for an old lamp in which, of course,
____ 11 contains a magic Genie. Scrooge's nephews will try to
____ 12 change their lives as they come up with more and more
____ 13 things for the Genie to do. However, the evil Merlock also
____ 14 wants to get hold of the lamp. Sparks flyaway as Merlock
____ 15 does everything he can to steal the Genie.

3 For questions 1-10, read the text below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
to form a word that fits in the spacein the same line.
Fame and fortune

Macaulay Culkin, now a (0) l(Jut~(u1 twenty year old, became YOUTH
one of the most (1) and well-paid stars in Hollywood FAME
while he was still an (2) . Now he has grown up, he ADOLESCENCE
can look back on a (3) which reads like a fairy-tale. CHILD
There are indeed few American children who can claim to have
been the most famous child in the world. This was the case with
Culkin after his (4) in Home Alone in 1986. APPEAR
Although this film made him a (5) name, his first HOUSE
(6) movie had come a couple of years earlier when SUCCESS
his (7) in Rocket Gibraltar earned him very PERFORM
(8) reviews from the critics, who are not noted for FAVOUR
their (9) towards child stars. Culkin's career did not KIND
end with Home Alone. As a (10) he went on to TEEN
appear in a number of more serious films.
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Unit 2

to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
My ideal job
One thing I know is that I wouldn't like to have an (0) __ o_C_t_u+f_a_t_l_O_J1__ OCCUpy
that has anything to do with physics, (1) or rnaths: CHEMIST
I am not the (2) type at all. In fact, at school I was a SCIENCE
complete (3) in these subjects. Neither am I very FAIL
good at dealing with people, nor am I (4) , so jobs in AMBITION
business, administration and (5) don't really interest MANAGE
me either. Moreover, I find it (6) to be surrounded by IRRITATE
a lot of people; I would much rather have a job involving creative
work or (7) skills of some sort. I'd like to have the ART
chance to work outdoors (8) and perhaps do a bit of OCCASION
travelling too. I am not (9) concerned about becoming PARTICULAR
rich but I would like to have a (10) income - enough REASON
to live comfortably.
Questions and question tags

5 Complete the questions in the questionnairesbelow, then choose one of the questionnairesand
write your own answers.
You and clothes
o Do you dress before breakfast or after?
/ usually dress hefore breakfast.
_______ you wear the same kind of clothes five years ago as you do today?
2 _______ someone else buy your clothes for you?
3 _______ you ever bought anything and then not worn it?
4 _______ you fashion conscious?
5 _______ does it take you to get dressed in the morning?
6 _______ do you wear when you go to a party?
7 _______ pairs of shoes do you have?
9
* The good, the bad and the unbearable
Leave it at home
./ 0 Cars became popular as a quick and comfortable way of getting
will 00 around. This is still true when you will drive along a quiet country
road or a modern rnotorway. As far as you getting from one place
2 to another in the city is concerned, it is a different story. Whenever
3 I want to get up anywhere in a hurry, I leave the car at home
4 and go on foot. It often turns out to be much more quicker. I still make
5 the mistake now and again of thinking the car is an efficient means
6 of a transport. The other day my wife was feeling a bit under the
7 weather. She had been having terrible headaches for some long
8 time and she decided she couldn't take it anymore and asked from
9 me to give her a lift to the doctor, whose surgery is in the centre
____ 10 part of town. We live in a suburb in the old quarter of the city and
____ 11 it is about twenty minutes away on foot. On the way back, however,
____ 12 it is all uphill and I must to admit it can be exhausting, especially on a
____ 13 hot day. Reluctantly I got the car out of the garage and we set it off,
____ 14 me muttering about the wonders of taxis. My heart was sank as we
____ 15 hit the first traffic jam - I knew we were beginning a long journey.

Far from the madding crowd?

We live in a new residential area on the outskirts of London. It is
a quiet (0) neijlr6ourlrooP/ , which makes a nice change after living NEIGHBOUR
in one of the noisiest (1) of London for many years. SUBURBAN
The house is set in beautiful (2) , though there is one SURROUND
fairly major (3) problem: a chemical factory about ENVIRONMENT
five miles away in the (4) zone. Unfortunately, INDUSTRY
the waste from the factory has caused serious (5) _ POLLUTE
of the atmosphere and the river. Another (6) is the ADVANTAGE
night life - there isn't any. If you want (7) , you have ENTERTAIN
to invent it yourself or drive into (8) London, with all CENTRE
the hassle of finding a (9) parking space. Luckily, it SUIT
is only five minutes walk from our house to the nearest
(10) station. GROUND
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* Culture shock
5 Camp will keep them busy all day doing the things they most enjoy them.
6 Skouras is an international camp with our children from all over the
7 world. My children have made friends with children of their own age from
8 Poland, China, Denmark and the United States. Naturally they do get lots
9 of opportunities to practise their English as English is the only language spoken.
____ 10 The Camp it is located in one of the most beautiful parts of Chalkidiki. It is
____ 11 and huge (120 000 square metres) and is just a stone's throwaway from the clear,
____ 12 blue Aegean Sea. It takes the children just five minutes to walk to the golden,
____ 13 sandy beach on the foot. The programme is packed with exciting activities for
____ 14 children. Apart from the usual water sports, my kids' favourite activities are horse
____ 15 riding and table tennis. Other sports include basketball, volley-ball and athletics.
The Camp ends with a sports contest in the last week which all parents are
invited to attend.

A tip round Europe

The British are (0) considered to be among the worst tippers in CONSIDER
the world but is that because they simply don't know the rules?
Customs differ between countries, so it is not (1) _ SURPRISE
that in Tokyo they do things (2) from London. DIFFERENT
In British restaurants, for example, a tip is (3) _ GENERAL
included in the bill and this is the case in most (4) _ NORTH
European countries. In some Mediterranean countries, such as
Greece and Spain, the customer is expected to pay a little extra
for (5) service. As for bars and pubs, again customs SATISFY
vary. In Britain, one (6) does not have to pay a tip in CERTAIN
pubs, while in hotel bars it is (7) common to leave FAIR
your small change behind. This is the case in (8) too, GERMAN
but in France you leave a tip only when drinks are brought to your
table. In the (9) of European countries, with the MAJOR
(10) of Ireland where it applies only in top hotels, EXCEPT
porters receive a tip for carrying your luggage to your room for you.
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* Comic genius
A sense of humour
__ ./__ 0 Have you noticed how often people are happy to hear the same joke,
~(}t 00 over and over again? One reason, of course, is that they have not
1 probably forgotten the details of the joke, but I am sure it also has
2 something to do with getting at the same pleasure more than once. So
3 when a person who has just started telling a joke asks his audience,
4 'Do you know it?' or 'Have you heard it before?' people must always
5 answer something like, 'It doesn't matter, let's hear it again.' It is not such
6 surprising that if a joke is worth hearing, it is worth hearing several times.
7 I think it was Ogden Nash who once said that it is probably better to have
8 an infectious disease than to have a sense of humour. He argued,
9 tongue-in-cheek no doubt, that although that people who possess a sense
____ 10 of humour have a good time, they do never actually achieve anything
____ 11 important, whether good or bad. This, thought Nash, is because when
____ 12 people with a sense of the humour begin to do anything important, they
____ 13 can't help noticing how so funny they look doing it, so they stop to have
____ 14 a good laugh at themselves. As a result, what might to have been a
____ 15 great achievement is left unfinished.

3 For questions 1-10, read the jokes below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
1 The boss of a big company brought all his (0) em'p/~yees together EMPLOY
and told them he had an (1) to make. He told them he had ANNOUNCE
some good news and some bad news for them. 'It is my (2) _ PLEASE
to announce,' he said, 'that we have kept to all (3) _ GOVERN
regulations and we haven't broken any laws.' Everyone smiled with
(4) . 'The bad news,' he continued, 'is that ... SATISFY
2 What are the (5) for any young person who wishes to QUALIFY
become a (6) ? He should be able to foretell what is going POLITICS
to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and have the
(7) afterwards to explain why ... ABLE
3 A judge, in sentencing a (8) recently, said: 'I'm going to give CRIME

you the maximum (9) . I'm going to let you go free, so you PUNISH
can WOrtyabout taxes, inflation, (10) bills and everything else, ... ELECTRIC
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* Talking sense
All about owls

For thousands of years the owl has been a (0) creature which CREATE
has had a special (1) for people. Primitive people had MEAN
many superstitions about the owl, (2) because of the MAIN
strange sound of the cries it makes. In many parts of Europe, the
hooting of an owl is (3) to be an omen of death. THINK
In ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of (4) so it WISE
was closely linked with the female (5) Athena. GOD
The owl is a bird that really comes to life at night and its whole
body is (6) suited to this way of living. SPECIAL
An owl has very (7) hearing and a remarkable SENSE
(8) to see in the dark. If there are any other animals ABLE
around at night, it will hear them (9) , and because the IMMEDIATE
owl is so (10) of its territory, it will frighten them away PROTECT
with its strange hoot.
Comparative and superlative adjectives

4 For questions 1-10, complete the secondsentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and
five words, including the word given.
o My sister is not old enough to ride a bicycle.
too
My sister is l_oo----..,;t-.Y}_o_U_J1=!l<--_to ride a bicycle.
1 Objects that are close are clearer than objects that are distant.
dear
Distant objects close objects.
2 This month's test and last month's test were equally easy.
just
This month's test last month's test.
3 My brother lives nearer to me than my mother does.

far
My brother does not --'-- from me as my mother does.
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Unit 7
1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (./).
a word which should not be there, write the word.
o Strasbourg has always been an important European city.

00 Thanks to a favourable geographical position - at the
1 crossroads of waterways and overland routes - the area
2 on which the Strasbourg now stands has been inhabited
3 for since the Bronze Age. In the Middle Ages, it was an
4 important economic centre and it has gradually grew so
5 strong that by the fifteenth century it had become a free
6 republic. It grew more richer and richer in the sixteenth
7 century and welcomed free thinkers and refugees from
8 SWitzerland, Italy and France. These newcomers have
9 greatly enriched the city's cultural life. In 1697, Strasbourg
'---__ 10 has became part of France. Germany conquered it in 1870
m. 11 and it was only returned to France after the end of the First
'---__ 12 World War. It was again occupied by Germany in the Second
~ __ 13 World War and suffered some great destruction. In 1949, the
___ 14 city was been chosen to be the headquarters of the Council
ir, ;....-__ 15 of Europe, and since 1979 it has been come the seat of the
European Parliament to which, at present, fifteen countries
send representatives.
practice: Use of English, Part 5
questions 1-10, read the text below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
rm a word that fits in the spacein the same line.
.adame Tussaud's
Tussaud's is one of the most popular (0) __ a_tt_fj_-a_c_t_l_O_J1_S__ in AITRACT
________ in summer, make sure CROWD
ENTERTAIN
'U"""-''-''-U11 contains life-like wax figures, which are (3) _ CONTINUE
up to date. On display are (4) models of REAL
aamous people, from the latest pop stars to (5)
.·i·.·····..••. figures. HISTORY
can also see today's politicians and the most well-known TV
- . You can buy a combined ticket which will allow PERSON
________ to both the Museum and the Planetarium next ADMIT
The Planetarium is open (8) from 10.00 am to DAY
pm and (9) are given every hour. Baker Street is PRESENT
(10) underground station for both attractions. NEAR
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Unit 8
10 had asked my friend to look into the murder. In so doing, Holmes had had
11 discovered the importance of the microscope in the work of a detective.
12 Holmes then told me he was expecting a new client to arrive but that
13 the man was so late. Suddenly he asked me if I knew anything about
14 racing. I admitted I occasionally was spent some of my war pension on
15 betting on the horses but I rarely won anything. 'Then I'll need your advice,'
said Holmes.

uestions 1-10, read the text below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
rm a word that fits in the space in the same line.
mysteries
1~(1IIV~~a
e hYl~fcase full of papers which describe cases BRIEF

Holmes has investigated. Some are (1) _ FAIL
________ for the mysteries in EXPLAIN
A problem without a (3) may interest the SOLVE
________ , but will offer little to the general reader. SPECIAL
________ stories is that of the yacht Alicia, FINISH
one morning sailed into the mist and (6) forever; APPEAR
vessel and the crew were never seen again. Then there was
case of the well-known (7) Luigi Persano, who JOURNAL
________ mad with a jar in front of him. The jar COMPLETE
ontained a remarkable worm, unknown to science up to that point.
from these mysterious cases for which Holmes did not find
, there are those which various (9) people INFLUENCE
d rather not see in print and those which might affect the
________ of Holmes himself, for whom I have more respect REPUTE
perfect simple and past perfect continuous

questions 1-10, complete the second sentenceso that it has a similar meaning to the first
ce, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and
words, including the word given.
My sister is not old enough to ride a bicycle.
too
__________ to_O_,-r~_(J_u_J1=j,---l-(J---------- ride a bicycle.
First he entered the house through the window and then he stole the jewels.
broken
______________________ the house through the window he stole the jewels.
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* Mysterious monsters
Is it a bird or is it a plane?
./ 0 In 1655, a Portugese man appears to have been transported within
some 00 seconds from one country to another by some mysterious forces.
The man was for doing business in the Portugese colony of Goa in
2 India when suddenly he found himself back in Portugal. He was
3 put on trial, which mayor may not have been fair, and he was been
4 condemned to death. The authorities in Portugal at the time tended to
5 explain things according to their religious beliefs as well as and their
6 knowledge of the world. Their world included witches, magicians and
7 devils, who they were believed to be enemies of the Church and
8 authority. One of the characteristics by which these evil creatures
9 could have be recognized was that they were able to fly through the
10 air. We do not know about whether the man from Goa was carried
11 through the air or not. There are no surviving details of the case
12 although that the evidence at the time was thought to be good enough
13 to convict him. Since the seventeenth century, many other cases have
14 been reported in the which people have claimed to have flown through
15 the air. Nowadays most of people do not believe in witches and
magicians and UFOs are offered as an alternative explanation.

The men and women who vanish

We often read or hear about people (0) disaffeart'nJ ' some of DISAPPEAR
whom come back again, while others vanish forever. It has been suggested
that these people were taken by aliens; some go (1) _ WILL
while others are (2) by the visitors from outer space. KIDNAP
It is not surprising that those who do come back after a mysterious
(3) find it difficult to make people accept their ABSENT
(4) _ EXPLAIN
We can only wonder what has (5) happened to those REAL
who never return. There is one story from the nineteenth century of the
(6) of a certain Mr Rhys. When he failed to return after DISAPPEAR
(7) an evening in the company of a friend, and SPEND
(8) failed to discover him, his friend, John Davies, was SEARCH
accused of (9) him. Fortunately for Davies, there was MURDER
a local farmer with a (10) of such mysteries and this man KNOW
persuaded evetyone involved that Rhys had actually been taken away
by alien creatures.
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* What's in a face?
____ 12 grow long.) When her little jokes became threats and were combined
____ 13 with my father's commands to go and get off my hair cut without
____ 14 further delay, I gave them in. I would then spend a few months feeling
____ 15 miserable until my hair had grown. Then, once again, my mother would
start complaining ...

Show me your face and I'll tell you who you are
People have for a long time held the (0) bette! that the face BELIEVE
is in some way a reflection of (1) . There is nothing PERSON
(2) or mysterious about it: we all have different MAGIC
physical (3) and therefore our CHARACTER
(4) is unique. How you feel about yourself also has APPEAR
a direct influence on your facial (5) . If, for example, you EXPRESS
have a lot of (6) self- , this will show in your face. CONFIDENT
From ancient times, this (7) between particular CONNECT
features and aspects of personality was made, and a systematic study of
the (8) developed and became known as physiognomy. RELATE
Physiognomy has proved that people's faces (9) reflect ACCURATE
people's characters. For those who don't find the idea convincing, let us take
the example of (10) twins, who not only look alike but IDENTITY
also behave in a similar way.
Either... or,both ... and, not only ... but also, neither ... nor
4 For questions 1-10, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
too
My sister is t_O_(}--"r-~_(}_U_J1_:;:_;<Vqf--t(}--------- ride a bicycle.
1 I did not enjoy the performance and I didn't like the theatre.
neither
I liked the theatre.
2 She is mean and bad-tempered.

but
Not she is also bad-tempered.
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Unit 11
dice: Use of English, Part 4

estions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (if).
e has a word which should not be there, write the word.
John Montague, the eleventh Earl of Sandwich, was so keen

on the gambling that he could not drag himself away from the
1 card table, even for a meal. Once he has spent 24 hours playing
2 cards without once getting up to eat or drink. Instead, to stop
3 himself from feeling hungry during the game, he had his servants
4 make to him a special 'portable' meal, made up of a piece of cold
5 beef between two slices of a toast. There was nothing original
6 in putting a piece of bread round vegetables or even if round a
7 lump of meat. It had been done for as long as bread itself had
8 existed. However, it was this famous incident that it gave the
9 snack a name: the sandwich. The first written record we have of the
______ 10 use of the word in this sense goes back to 1762. The word was
=-__ 11 well off established by the middle of the nineteenth century and
_____ 12 even began to be used as a verb whose meaning 'to put something
,..__
__ 13 between two things of another type', as in the, 'I found myself
~ __ 14 sandwiched between a crowd of football fans and a brick wall.'
___ 15 Also, someone who carries away two advertising boards over his
shoulders came to be known as a 'sandwich man'.

questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line
arm a ward that fits in the space in the same line.
more fruit and vegetables!

report on the (0) eati'nj habits of children in Britain EAT
that children from the age of three to sixteen show a
_____ -;--__ for vegetables and only eat LIKE
________ amounts of fruit and vegetables at Christmas. SUFFICE
researcher says not eating (3) may have PROPER
consequences on a child's (4) and physical SPEAK
,'''''''" ...ment, resulting in poorer performance at school.
________ is to give children extra iron and vitamins but SOLVE
long run it is more (6) if children get the right EFFECT
gredients in their (7) diet. DAY
________ , parents choose food for their children that is FORTUNATE
________ to prepare, rather than food which is fresh CONVENIENCE
________ , it is difficult later to get children to CONSEQUENCE
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Unit 12
;;__ 12 have come about as a result of this. He also told me he was too
..""'--
13 scared of flying. I tried to change the subject by asking if he was
____ 14 planning to go anywhere interesting in the summer and that was my
_---15 most big mistake. He went on to tell me in great detail that his dream
had always been to visit the Bahamas. He asked whether I had ever
been to the Caribbean and explained that it wasn't really all that expensive.

form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
world of dreams 2
some dreams (0) __ dt_:__l_S-,al!Jh,_'P_e_~_r__ forever, other dreams come APPEAR
again and again, which for the (1) is like going DREAM
to the same place for a (2) and doing the same VACATE
We do not only 'go back' to (3) experiences ENJOY
also to (4) ones. An example of a nice dream is PLEASURE
we are doing something very (5) , like winning SUCCESS
while a common nightmare is when we are making fools
________ in public or being in a situation from which it is SELF
________ to escape. Perhaps, then, we should not see POSSIBLE
as an escape from (8) , but as an extension REAL
________ continue to occupy ourselves USUAL
whatever pleasure or problems we have had during the day, while we
________ . So, rather than freeing us from everyday WAKE
speech and reported questions

this dialogue, which is basedon the text in exercise2. Usebetween one and four words
space.
Ah, good morning Mary. Mind if I (1) ? Thanks.

I was just finishing my breakfast.
You know, I (2) the strangest dream last night.
Oh, really.
Shall I tell you about it? Well, I dreamt that I was a pilot and I (3) this plane,
you see, to the Bahamas.
How interesting. I could do with another cup of coffee. I (4) difficult to have a
proper conversation if I (5) enough coffee inside me, don't you?
Yes. The next part of the dream (6) interesting part. You see, one of the
passengers (7) to be a terrorist and he (8) the plane.
You don't say!
Yes, you see, I (9) this book about terrorism and I reckon that's why I
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* Goodies and baddies
Made of money?
have 0 A couple were walking down Oxford Street when they have stopped
./ 00 to look in a jeweller'S window. The woman, who was young and
----
I attractive but a little bit also vain, said she'd love to have a pair of
2 diamond ear-rings. The man, who was not very well off, was madly
3 in love with the girl and didn't want to lose her. Suddenly he did took
4 a brick out of his pocket, smashed the window and grabbed the
5 ear-rings, then which he gave to the woman. She gave him a big hug
6 and a smile and they carried on walking. A little further down the
7 street they stopped at again another jeweller'S and the woman saw
8 a beautiful diamond ring which she said she would love to have on
9 her finger. The man took up another brick from his pocket, smashed
10 a hole in the glass, grabbed at the ring and handed it to the woman,
11 who was, of course, too delighted. A few minutes later, they found
12 themselves standing outside yet another jeweller's window and
13 the woman looked at a pearl necklace of which she said would look
14 gorgeous round her neck. The man turned round angrily to the woman
15 and said: That's enough, you must think I'm made of bricks.'

Smuggler's reduced sentence

A British man was convicted and sentenced to twenty years'
(0) imprisonment yesterday after a court in the northern city of PRISON
Moyale in Kenya found him (1) of trying to GUILT
smuggle irory tusks into Kenya
David Murray, who is (2) and a father of a young boy, EMPLOY
was arrested last September on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border after
special police (3) discovered the tusks in his car. INVESTIGATE
A court spokesman said that Murray, a (4) of RESIDE
Manchester in England, told the court that he had been hired to
deliver the car from England to a (5) in Ethiopia. He DESTINY
said he had accepted the job because he (6) , _ DESPERATE
needed the money'. Once in Ethiopia, his (7) , ' asked EMPLOY
him to take the car to Kenya. Murray was not given an
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* TV times
9 Andrew Birkin, who wrote The Lost Boys, an award-winning BBC series.
____ 10 Producer Ene Vanaveski who said: 'We went to all the theatre schools,
____ 11 but when we saw Alice she was just the right for the part.' Mr Birkin said
____ 12 he was impressed by both of Alice's acting skills and her natural, unspoilt
____ 13 personality. Alice has been taking on drama lessons for three years,
____ 14 though she has been interested in acting since she was five. She has now
____ 15 got her own agent and has started to go to other auditions.

Kids watch more TV

A study into children's television (0) VleWll1j habits reveals VIEW
that children whose parents have a high level of (1) _ EDUCATE
tend to watch less television than children from less educated
family (2) . The report also suggests that a high rate BACK
of TV watching amongst children in poorer (3) areas SUBURB
and in the provinces, compared to those living in large urban centres, is
often due to (4) and a lack of other kinds of POOR
(5) in the area. Discos, cinema, theatre and sports ENTERTAIN
(6) offer children in urban centres a wider range of ACTIVE
pastimes, which leads to far (7) hours being spent FEW
in front of the box. (8) , comedies and adventure COMMERCE
films are children's (9) programmes, while twenty FAVOUR
per cent of children said they preferred (10) films VIOLENCE
and thrillers.
Verbs followed by infinitive or -ing form (gerund)

4 For questions 1-10, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
too
My sister is to_o~y'-(J-u-n-:::..,+q-l-o-------- ride a bicycle.
This TV is too expensive for us to buy at the moment.

afford
We this TV at the moment.
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* The end of intelligence?
2 For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
Brain training
be 0 Do you remember how at school certain subjects seemed be impossible
./ 00 to understand? However much the teacher tried to explain geography,
1 for example, you still did not grasp even though the basics? Now some
2 psychologists are suggesting that learning difficulties may lie in the way
3 the subjects are been presented rather than being a failure on the part
4 of the children. According to a method that called NLP (don't worry what
5 the letters stand for now), people fall into groups depending on how they
6 do learn best - through sight, sound or feeling. For example, a visual
7 child will to learn best through diagrams, an auditory child through spoken
8 words, while a kinesthetic child will benefit most from and practical
9 examples. It is easy to find out at which group your child belongs to.
____ 10 All you have to do is ask him or her a question, such as 'What was your
____ 11 day at school like?' According to the new theory of NLP, the way the child
____ 12 will answers will tell you whether they learn through sight, sound or feeling.
____ 13 So, a visual child, when answering, will look up to your right, whereas
____ 14 an auditory child will look from left to right. A child that has learns best
____ 15 through feeling will look down to the left and right before giving an answer.

3 For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line
Seven-year-olds fail test

A study by the National Foundation for (0) __ E_~_u_c_a_t_i_ol1_a_I__ Research EDUCATION
of 3 400 seven-year-old pupils shows an (1) of basic IGNORE
maths and English which is simply (2) _ BELIEVE
The results, which were published recently, show that one in
seven children lack basic (3) of maths and KNOW
cannot even do simple multiplication, such as 5 x 5. The results also
show that a (4) of the children in this age group THREE
cannot count up to 100 and do not know what (5) _ EXPRESS
such as half and a quarter, refer to. Moreover, only half of the
children had any (6) of the decimal system for money UNDERSTAND
and only one in thirty could (7) read the temperature ACCURACY
on a thermometer. Finally, only one in seven could say what the cost of
three 50p (8) is. LOAF
As regards English, more than a quarter have not learnt to read
with any (9) and have problems with the alphabet; CONFIDE
meanwhile another 25% are (10) to spell easy words, ABLE
like can, man and hot.
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Good luck, bad luck
MAR AND USE OF ENGLISH

questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space.Useonly one
rd in each space.
of the most important days of the year is the first of january and it is celebrated (0) allover the
. It is the time of year (1) people get together and eat and drink a lot and generally behave with
th and affection (2) each other. In London, on the stroke (3) midnight before the
Year begins, people gather in Trafalgar Square and not (4) celebrate in (5) usual
but also sometimes throw themselves into the fountain under Nelson's column. In Spain, people eat
_____ grape for each of the twelve strokes of midnight. No one knows exactly (7) the
of celebrating the New Year began. Some people believe (8) was the Chinese who started it,
_____ say it was the Romans. In China, they celebrate New Year, which is (10) a different
from that in the West, (11) only for one day but for several days. A special custom in some
.'-' ...uu.~'-' is (12) make so-called 'New Year's resolutions'. This means you make a big decision to
_____ way by stopping any bad habits you may (14) . For example,
say they will stop smoking, they will work harder, they will do (15) best to pass their exams,
so on. It is pity that the optimistic spirit of New Year often does not last very long!

a word that fits in the space in the same line.
or superstition?
__ tlt_e+.fi_n_l_'t_io_n__ of the word DEFINE
BELIEVE
________ - but can these beliefs be referred to as PROVE

perstrtionsr Throughout history, human (3) have BE
theories which turned out to be false, but the people who
them were sometimes not (4) at all. In all periods SUPERSTITION
, people have had to find (5) for things with EXPLAIN
________ they have had and so beliefs that we today find KNOW
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* Good luck, bad luck
crazy seemed quite (7) at the time. For example, the REASON
famous and very (8) scientist Aristotle thought that INFLUENCE
the world was flat and for many centuries (9) on TRAVEL
long voyages were (10) about falling off the edge of ANXIETY
the world.
Conditionals (1): zero, first and second

too
My sister is fo_o_y<-"-U-H.......,,rq-l-o-------- ride a bicycle.
1 On rainy days we don't go out.
stay
When home.
2 You should not answer any of the police's questions.

refuse
If the police ask you questions, them.
3 I won't buy a new suit unless I get a pay rise.

if
I will only I get a pay rise.
4 I would welcome a change of job.

could
If change my job.
5 A change of job would do you good.

were
If I change jobs.
6 All you have to do to switch the light on is press this button.

comes
If you press on.
7 You should ignore strangers asking for money.

ignore
If strangers ask them.
8 Going on holiday is the best way to relax.

want
If --'-- should go on holiday.
9 Don't break that vase because you'll have to pay for it.
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Unit 17
m practice: Use of English, Part 4

For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
A new hobby
been 0 I finished university several years ago and I've been got a degree in
ha---ve- 00 Economics. Before that I have studied graphics and worked in an
1 advertising agency for a short time. I realized very quickly that by hying
2 to persuade people to buy things they did not really need was not my cup
3 of tea. My university degree allowed me to get a job working for various
4 charities so then I have worked for Oxfam and War on Want, which
5 both campaign against hunger in the world and try to help poor countries
6 stand on their own two feet. My ideal job would to be to work for an
7 organisation like Greenpeace as a press officer or something like. After
8 all these years, I have never lost interest in drawing and painting and I
9 have done recently taken up a hobby: I attend art classes at the local
____ 10 college every Monday and Friday. They are teach us to use watercolours
____ 11 and I have already painted a couple of landscapes and still lifes. There
____ 12 are very various people on the course, mostly middle-aged like me.
____ 13 I think we're there for because we're all a bit bored with our lives and
____ 14 our jobs and want to do something other than going to the pub or
____ 15 sitting in front of the TV like as a vegetable.

For questions 1-10, read the text below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
don't know much about art

__ cr,_l_'t_ic_i_sm_s__ made of modern art, perhaps the most CRITIC
on is that it is not found (1) enough. This REAL
________ is often expressed in different ways, but the COMPLAIN
________ always comes down to the belief that the closer ARGUE
________ it is. The more like a photograph GOOD
painting is, the more gifted the (5) - 'It looks so real,' ART
say (6) . This is why modern painters are ADMIRE
accused of being (7) to paint and are sometimes ABLE
accused of (8) the public. If we accept this way CHEAT
assessing art, then we would have to come to the
________ that Madame Tussaud's - because it is full of CONCLUDE
________ models of famous people - must contain greater LIFE
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One small step

For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Useonly one
word in each space.
On 14th April 1961, a young Russian cosmonaut made history by becoming the first man (0) t_o__ be in
space. Seven years later, and just two weeks before the anniversary (1) his historic orbit around the
Earth, he was killed (2) a plane crash. This remarkable man was Yuri Gargarin. Gargarin
_____ born in Gzantsk in Russia and he began to train (4) a pilot while he was still a
_____ university. When he finally qualified as a pilot he (6) made an officer of the
Soviet Airforce. He became a cosmonaut in 1960. The space race (7) the United States and the Soviet
Union had already begun some years (8) , but while the Americans were still getting ready to send
_____ first satellite into space, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 round the Earth. In 1961, Russia took the
by surprise again (10) launching the Vostock rocket into space, inside (11) was
first man in history to travel in space: Yuri Gargarin. (12) first manned space flight lasted only 108
rrunutes, which is (13) very long when you bear in mind that, nowadays, astronauts (14) _
H"JHUlu, if not years, in space. After his death in a test flight (15) the age of 34, his hometown of
·'-JL.alll"n. was renamed 'Gargarin' in his honour.

r questions 1-10, read the text below. Usethe word given in capitals at the end of each line
close-up of the Moon

___ I1_i_l1_e_t_e_el1_th century and for most of the twentieth NINE
up to the 1950s, the exploration of the Moon was carried
________ telescopes. This research POWER
________ information about the visible side of the VALUE
but it was only in October 1959 that the (3) _ SEE
of the Moon was revealed to the world. Photographs taken
the Soviet Lunik III (4) showed that the SPACE
________ side of the Moon was, in fact, not very different HIDE
the near side. The (6) landing of unmanned SUCCESS
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* One small step
spacecraft by the USAand the Russians in the 1960s and finally
the landing of the first man on the Moon in 1969 made possible the
direct (7) of the Moon's surface. The Apollo astronauts EXPLORE
collected rocks and sent thousands of photographs back to
(8) in Houston. They set up instruments which HEAD
calculated the Moon's (9) and through the use of laser MEASURE
beams they discovered the exact (10) between the DISTANT
Moon and the Earth.
future (2): future perfect simple, future perfect continuous, future continuous
too
My sister is to_O~.Y'-O-U-J1...."
.....
-:l-q-t.-o--------- ride a bicycle.
1 This time next week, we'll be on the beach in Majorca.

lying
This time next week on the beach in Majorca.
2 This is my twentieth year working in this office.

working
By the end of this year, I in this office for twenty years.
36th May is our first wedding anniversary.

married
On 6th May for one year.
4 There's a test for all classes tomorrow morning.

doing
All the pupils tomorrow morning.
5 I'm going to finish writing my third letter by Friday.

written
By Friday my third letter.
6 If you don't need your bike tomorrow, can I borrow it?

using
If you your bike tomorrow, can I borrow it?
7 The new school will be ready by October.

built
The new school by October.
8 I have tickets for the theatre tomorrow so I can't come for a meal.
be
I can't come for a meal tomorrow because to the
theatre.
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Unit 19

For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
Journey of my dreams
./ 0 Until a few months ago, Colin, my husband, was looking for a job without
bij 00 big success and feeling life had little to offer to him. Now, after winning the
1 Lottery, we are rich and are both in a position to enjoy our leisure time as we
2 have never been able to do in our lives before. Our children are being grown
3 up and living abroad so we have no one to share out our good fortune with.
4 Anyway, we have decided to go on a long cruise. Colin came home a few
5 days ago with a huge pile of some colourful brochures for exotic holidays, the
6 kind of holiday I thought only film stars went on, not people like us. Now it
7 will be me lying on the deck of a luxury liner, sipping my Campari and sunbathing
8 as we will sail to some far-off destination. The idea of a swimming pool on a ship
9 is something more I have only read about. We started looking through the
er
10 brochures last night, for finding all those mythical places very tempting. It is hard to
s 11 believe that the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal will not just still be pictures in a book,
12 but that we could actually be there, standing inside and having our photograph
13 taken so we can show people back in home that we have really been. Of course
14 we will have to buy a new camera; our little Kodak hasn't been working good
15 since our Harry's wedding, which was ten whole years ago. And when I think of
the washing machine we couldn't afford to get repaired six months ago ...

Just a bit of fun?

For many people, playing card games is one of the most
(0) en;~yable ways of spending their leisure time. Indeed, in ENJOY
some cultures card games and even an element of (1) _ GAMBLE
amongst friends and family is quite common on certain special
occasions, such as New Year's Eve. (2) at cards is WIN
a bit like having your fortune told - it is a (3) bit of fun. HARM
Even if you don't win, you can take comfort in sayings, such as
'(4) at cards, lucky in love.' It is often LUCK
________ to watch someone who has never played cards AMUSE
before beat all the experts. This is called '(6) luck' BEGIN
and it adds to the fun. Some people find it (7) just FASCINATE
watching a game of cards, while others find the whole thing
incredibly (8) if they are not taking an active part. BORE
(9) , for some people card games become an FORTUNATE
________ that they cannot control. ADDICT
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Unit 20
8 I was foolish enough to admit I didn't have any money with which to pay up the
9 fees for my training, so even if though they thought I could act, they couldn't
10 see how I was going to pay my way. I had reached a dead end. Then I saw
11 a poster in the university English department which advertising jobs for teachers
12 in Italy. I had always wanted to go to Italy because I had heard of so much about
13 it from my father. He had been born in Italy and ran a small pizzeria in Camden
14 Town. Just for fun a friend and I we decided to go along to the interview in
15 London, though we had not been inside a classroom since we left school.

Hollywood forever?
Apart from television, the cinema is the most popular form of
(0) entertat'nment for most people because it is still relatively ENTERTAIN
(1) . Hollywood is, of course, the capital of the EXPENSE
(2) cinema industry. Hollywood movies make up NATION
(3) 75% of all the films we watch at our local cinemas. ROUGH
Although we may find it difficult to remember the names of
(4) and French film stars, Hollywood stars, such as ITALY
Sylvester Stallone and Meryl Streep are (5) names HOUSE
all around the world. Moreover, only Hollywood seems to make
certain kinds of films (6) _ SUCCESS
________ are one example but we can also include westerns, MUSIC
although for a time 'spaghetti westerns' (made in Italy) were quite
________ with cinema goers. But cowboys and Indians are FASHION
really a Hollywood (9) and they are still going strong SPECIAL
after all these years. Such films, however, have not remained
________ by time and changes in attitudes. The cowboys TOUCH
are no longer always the goodies as they were in the 1940s.
bs followed by infinitive with or without to

For questions 1-10, complete the second sentenceso that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence,using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and
words, including the word given.
My sister is not old enough to ride a bicycle.
too
My sister is t
to_0---7'yc._o_u_n--:;:-v:/-q_ _o ride a bicycle.
709
* Potato races
correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (if)
The king of sports?

./ 0 The stadium is only a few minutes away from where I live so I usually
the 00 go to matches on the foot. I put on my team's colours and set off with a
1 couple of friends from work. I always feel a sense of excitement as I turn
2 to the corner and the tall floodlights come into view at the top of the main
3 stand of the stadium. By the time we will get to the stadium, there are big
4 enough crowds, all heading in the same direction. As soon as we get
5 inside, the chanting begins and the suspense builds up. I have been to a lot
6 of games which were utterly boring: the weather was such cold and drizzly
7 and the game finished in a goal-less draw. After going games like that, some
8 fans express their disappointment through acts of violence but I just look ahead
9 to the next game. Violence on and off of the pitch is the biggest problem in
____ 10 football, but the behaviour of some of the stars also gives the game a bad name.
____ 11 If we take Maradona of Argentina: he was, as everyone knows it, a great
____ 12 player but he got involved with drugs and was excluded from the 1994 World
____ 13 Cup after he failing a drugs test. Another of the greatest players was the
____ 14 Englishman George Best, but again the pressure of being a star was too great
____ 15 for him. He turned up to drink and retired when he was only twenty-six.

The Olympics: another view

(0) Un/t'ke most people, I took no interest whatsoever in the LIKE
last Olympics because (1) I see the whole thing as a BASIC
circus: it is a circus where athletes perform tricks and it is a circus
for big business. I am sure my views are not typical of how the
(2) of sports fans feel about the Olympic Games. In my MAJOR
opinion, the commercialization of sport through (3) _ SPONSOR
and (4) is causing the Games serious damage. ADVERT
During the event, television is full of (5) for expensive COMMERCE
trainers, clothes and sports (6) aimed EQUIP
(7) at teenagers, whose parents can ill afford to buy PARTICULAR
them such things. What I also find (8) is the way DISAPPOINT
teams are now called after the company that sponsors them.
Finally, there is the (9) way in which gold medallists RIDICULE
become well-known (10) overnight and make a lot of PERSON
money appearing in adverts for trainers or breakfast cereal.
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* Holidays are bad for your health
7 and I had to continue my search. The owner, who was friendly and helpful,
8 told me I should have phoned earlier but he also told me that where I would
9 find a vacant room. I have followed his directions and came to a little,
____ 10 concrete block, with a big sign saying 'Rooms' hanging from an olive tree in
____ 11 the front yard. Luckily, they already had a couple of free rooms and I chose
____ 12 the one with the best view. After I having a quick shower, I set out to explore
____ 13 the town. Arriving in May meant I could to avoid the crowds, which in the
____ 14 high season fill the narrow streets. Now I nearly had the place to myself,
____ 15 except for a few German tourists and except elderly English couples who were
staying in the four-star hotel just outside the town.

Getting away from it all

How many times have you come back from what was meant to be
a (0) relaxin!! holiday and said, 'If only I had stayed at home!' RELAX
Why are holidays often more (1) than staying home? STRESS
It is not actually very (2) that foreign travel is tiring and SURPRISE
it is not just because of the distances involved. A (3) _ SUCCESS
trip needs planning and very careful (4) - this is PREPARE
hard work. Having set off, you will probably have to spend hours
in stuffy airports because of (5) delays. END
(6) , as everyone knows, is itself a stressful experience FLY
for most people. Finally, you arrive in an (7) environment FAMILIAR
with perhaps no (8) whatsoever of the local language. KNOW
It is almost like becoming a child again: one feels so (9) _ HELP
and stupid. Imagine not being able to explain what you want to eat to a
(10) or where you are staying to a taxi driver! WAIT
Expressing wishes and regrets; inversion

too
My sister is t{J_{J---r.Y'--{J_u_n~...,-rq-t-(J-------- ride a bicycle.
What a shame we didn't go to Paris instead.
gone
If Paris instead.
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2 _______ someone else buy your clothes for you?

4 _______ you fashion conscious?

5 _______ does it take you to get dressed in the morning?

6 _______ do you wear when you go to a party?

7 _______ pairs of shoes do you have?

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________ - but can these beliefs be referred to as PROVE

Conditionals (1): zero, first and second

2 You should not answer any of the police's questions.

3 I won't buy a new suit unless I get a pay rise.

4 I would welcome a change of job.

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6 All you have to do to switch the light on is press this button.

7 You should ignore strangers asking for money.

8 Going on holiday is the best way to relax.

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close-up of the Moon

1 This time next week, we'll be on the beach in Majorca.

2 This is my twentieth year working in this office.